Band Of Outsiders / Fall 2014 RTW

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“This is where you should be for Band of Outsiders.” That’s what read across one wall of the label’s fall presentation today at 70 Wooster Street and what’s also printed on a small plaque outside the door of their office near Chinatown. Soon, however, only one sign will be needed when their office moves into that presentation venue, where Band of Outsiders’ first store is set to open this summer.

“I looked everywhere,” said designer Scott Sternberg, adding that the sheer size of the space was a major selling point. It also lent itself more to a presentation than to a runway show, he felt. “My instinct was somehow this was the right way to do this.” So he artfully arranged models along the raw, unfinished perimeter which, in a way, was fitting since this collection felt like a stripped-down version of what Band does best. There was a great blazer (worn over what appeared to be the world’s coziest, striped, knit daytime pajamas), the perfect twisted-preppy outwear (a fur toggle coat or cropped trench with plaid flannel arms), something slightly romantic (raspberry floral silk skirt and blouse), and also a lighthearted look (a white skirt with trompe l’oeil belt and stitching worn with a winking sweater).

Sternberg said this collection started with the inimitable Lee Miller, but really, these are clothes for women to wear right now. Well, maybe not right now, maybe more like six months or so when the the clothes hit the racks just in time for the new store to open—and that’s exactly where every Band girl should be.